2018-02-22T04:59:55ZEl proyecto EDINSOST: inclusión de los ODS en la educación superiorhttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/114119
El proyecto EDINSOST: inclusión de los ODS en la educación superior
Sánchez Carracedo, Fermín; Segalàs Coral, Jorge; Cabré Garcia, José M.; Climent Vilaró, Joan; López Álvarez, David; Martín Escofet, Carme; Vidal López, Eva María
En este artículo se presenta el primer resultado del proyecto EDINSOST: un mapa de la competencia Sostenibilidad para el Grado de Ingeniería Informática, fácilmente adaptable a cualquier titulación de Grado en Ingeniería y a otras titulaciones superiores. El mapa ha sido desarrollado dentro del proyecto EDINSOST, cuyo objetivo es la formación de titulados capaces de liderar la resolución de los retos de nuestra sociedad mediante la integración de la formación en competencias en Sostenibilidad en el Sistema Universitario Español. Este mapa se ha adaptado con éxito a cinco grados en ingeniería (Informática, Eléctrica, Química, Mecánica y Diseño), un Grado en Ciencias Ambientales y un Grado en Administración y Dirección de
Empresas.
2018-02-14T12:44:55ZSánchez Carracedo, FermínSegalàs Coral, JorgeCabré Garcia, José M.Climent Vilaró, JoanLópez Álvarez, DavidMartín Escofet, CarmeVidal López, Eva MaríaEn este artículo se presenta el primer resultado del proyecto EDINSOST: un mapa de la competencia Sostenibilidad para el Grado de Ingeniería Informática, fácilmente adaptable a cualquier titulación de Grado en Ingeniería y a otras titulaciones superiores. El mapa ha sido desarrollado dentro del proyecto EDINSOST, cuyo objetivo es la formación de titulados capaces de liderar la resolución de los retos de nuestra sociedad mediante la integración de la formación en competencias en Sostenibilidad en el Sistema Universitario Español. Este mapa se ha adaptado con éxito a cinco grados en ingeniería (Informática, Eléctrica, Química, Mecánica y Diseño), un Grado en Ciencias Ambientales y un Grado en Administración y Dirección de
Empresas.Resultados de la sesión innovadora 'Menos escuchar y más discutir' de Jenui 2016http://hdl.handle.net/2117/113251
Resultados de la sesión innovadora 'Menos escuchar y más discutir' de Jenui 2016
López Álvarez, David
Los asistentes habituales a Jenui hemos discutido en diversas ocasiones que un congreso que potencia la innovación no podía limitarse a las presentaciones de trabajos “habituales” de 15 minutos de exposición y 5 minutos de preguntas. En la pasada edición de 2016 se llevó a cabo una sesión experimental, en la que los autores disponían de menos tiempo para presentar su artículo y se primaba la discusión sobre la exposición. Este póster presenta los resultados de la experiencia; por un lado se analiza la encuesta realizada entre el público presente, por otro, se escucha la voz de los oradores que participaron en la experiencia. Final- mente, se realiza una reflexión sobre las posibilidades que se abren para futuras ediciones.
2018-01-26T10:50:10ZLópez Álvarez, DavidLos asistentes habituales a Jenui hemos discutido en diversas ocasiones que un congreso que potencia la innovación no podía limitarse a las presentaciones de trabajos “habituales” de 15 minutos de exposición y 5 minutos de preguntas. En la pasada edición de 2016 se llevó a cabo una sesión experimental, en la que los autores disponían de menos tiempo para presentar su artículo y se primaba la discusión sobre la exposición. Este póster presenta los resultados de la experiencia; por un lado se analiza la encuesta realizada entre el público presente, por otro, se escucha la voz de los oradores que participaron en la experiencia. Final- mente, se realiza una reflexión sobre las posibilidades que se abren para futuras ediciones.Using service learning for improving student attraction and engagement in STEM studieshttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/113240
Using service learning for improving student attraction and engagement in STEM studies
López Álvarez, David
Both in Europe and around the world, there is a lack of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) graduates. The Universities that offer STEM studies face two common problems, the first of which is the lack of technological vocation. Despite the need in Europe for more engineers, and while STEM graduates enjoy almost full employment, few students decide to enrol for these degree courses. The second problem is that engineering studies traditionally have one of the highest dropout rates in Higher Education. One of the reasons for this is that students perceive engineering courses as highly technical and difficult, and with little relation to social progress. They are not aware of the creative nature of such studies, or the contribution to human development made by engineers. In order to tackle these problems, we are advocating the use of Service Learning. The projects resulting from this initiative will be able show future graduates the importance of creativity and the important role of science and technology in the future welfare of society; two points capable of inspiring vocation and enhancing the sense of belonging to the STEM collective in the first STEM degree courses. In this paper, we present the project and describe some of the experiences we have identified at our university, with the aim of using them for student attraction and engagement.
2018-01-26T09:38:10ZLópez Álvarez, DavidBoth in Europe and around the world, there is a lack of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) graduates. The Universities that offer STEM studies face two common problems, the first of which is the lack of technological vocation. Despite the need in Europe for more engineers, and while STEM graduates enjoy almost full employment, few students decide to enrol for these degree courses. The second problem is that engineering studies traditionally have one of the highest dropout rates in Higher Education. One of the reasons for this is that students perceive engineering courses as highly technical and difficult, and with little relation to social progress. They are not aware of the creative nature of such studies, or the contribution to human development made by engineers. In order to tackle these problems, we are advocating the use of Service Learning. The projects resulting from this initiative will be able show future graduates the importance of creativity and the important role of science and technology in the future welfare of society; two points capable of inspiring vocation and enhancing the sense of belonging to the STEM collective in the first STEM degree courses. In this paper, we present the project and describe some of the experiences we have identified at our university, with the aim of using them for student attraction and engagement.Just-in-time teaching improves engagement and academic results among students at risk of failure in computer science fundamentalshttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/112954
Just-in-time teaching improves engagement and academic results among students at risk of failure in computer science fundamentals
Pérez Poch, Antoni; López Álvarez, David
One of the desirable features of quality teaching is individualized attention to students. In this work we present a
teaching innovation of individualized support called Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT). We describe a pilot experience conducted in a laboratory group and two control groups of the Computer Science Fundamentals subject of bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering at the Barcelona East School of Engineering [EEBE]
of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in the first semester of 2016-2017 academic year. In this subject it has been observed that students tend to do fewer exercises than are required. They usually do them in the vicinity of the exams rather than throughout the course, and this has an impact on their learning and their academic performance. The aim of the experience was therefore to improve academic performance and student
satisfaction, and to reduce absenteeism. In the JiTT group, exercises were collected via a virtual campus and assessed before the next laboratory class. Data of the university entrance grade, age and origin of the students were collected. The results are presented and compared with the those obtained in the control groups. Significant improvements were found in the final grades and in student satisfaction with the teaching, and absenteeism
was reduced. In conclusion, this is a promising method that promotes individualized teaching at a reasonable cost for the teaching staff.
2018-01-19T07:21:53ZPérez Poch, AntoniLópez Álvarez, DavidOne of the desirable features of quality teaching is individualized attention to students. In this work we present a
teaching innovation of individualized support called Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT). We describe a pilot experience conducted in a laboratory group and two control groups of the Computer Science Fundamentals subject of bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering at the Barcelona East School of Engineering [EEBE]
of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in the first semester of 2016-2017 academic year. In this subject it has been observed that students tend to do fewer exercises than are required. They usually do them in the vicinity of the exams rather than throughout the course, and this has an impact on their learning and their academic performance. The aim of the experience was therefore to improve academic performance and student
satisfaction, and to reduce absenteeism. In the JiTT group, exercises were collected via a virtual campus and assessed before the next laboratory class. Data of the university entrance grade, age and origin of the students were collected. The results are presented and compared with the those obtained in the control groups. Significant improvements were found in the final grades and in student satisfaction with the teaching, and absenteeism
was reduced. In conclusion, this is a promising method that promotes individualized teaching at a reasonable cost for the teaching staff.Does like seek like? The formation of working groups in a programming projecthttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/112480
Does like seek like? The formation of working groups in a programming project
Sanou Gozalo, Eduard; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Arias Vicente, Marta; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon
In a course of the degree of computer science, the programming project has changed from individual to teamed work, tentatively in couples (pair programming). Students have full freedom to team up with minimum intervention from teachers. The analysis of the working groups made indicates that students do not tend to associate with students with a similar academic performance, perhaps because general cognitive parameters do not drive the choice of academic partners. Pair programming seems to give great results, so the efforts of future research in this field should focus precisely on how these pairs are formed, underpinning the mechanisms of human social interactions.
2018-01-09T11:08:50ZSanou Gozalo, EduardHernández Fernández, AntonioArias Vicente, MartaFerrer Cancho, RamonIn a course of the degree of computer science, the programming project has changed from individual to teamed work, tentatively in couples (pair programming). Students have full freedom to team up with minimum intervention from teachers. The analysis of the working groups made indicates that students do not tend to associate with students with a similar academic performance, perhaps because general cognitive parameters do not drive the choice of academic partners. Pair programming seems to give great results, so the efforts of future research in this field should focus precisely on how these pairs are formed, underpinning the mechanisms of human social interactions.Impact on performance of fused multiply-add units in aggressive VLIW architectureshttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/112027
Impact on performance of fused multiply-add units in aggressive VLIW architectures
López Álvarez, David; Llosa Espuny, José Francisco; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard; Valero Cortés, Mateo
Loops are the main time consuming part of programs based on floating point computations. The performance of the loops is limited either by recurrences in the computation or by the resources offered by the architecture. Several general-purpose superscalar microprocessors have been implemented with multiply-add fused floating-point units, that reduces the latency of the combined operation and the number of resources used. This paper analyses the influence of these two factors in the instruction-level parallelism exploitable from loops executed on a broad set of future aggressive processor configurations. The estimation of implementation costs (area and cycle time) enables a fair comparison of these configurations in terms of final performance and implementation feasibility. The paper performs technological projection for the next years in order to foresee the possible implementable alternatives. From this study we conclude that multiply-add fused units may have a deep impact in raising the performance of future processor architectures with a reasonable increase in cost.
2017-12-14T13:42:41ZLópez Álvarez, DavidLlosa Espuny, José FranciscoAyguadé Parra, EduardValero Cortés, MateoLoops are the main time consuming part of programs based on floating point computations. The performance of the loops is limited either by recurrences in the computation or by the resources offered by the architecture. Several general-purpose superscalar microprocessors have been implemented with multiply-add fused floating-point units, that reduces the latency of the combined operation and the number of resources used. This paper analyses the influence of these two factors in the instruction-level parallelism exploitable from loops executed on a broad set of future aggressive processor configurations. The estimation of implementation costs (area and cycle time) enables a fair comparison of these configurations in terms of final performance and implementation feasibility. The paper performs technological projection for the next years in order to foresee the possible implementable alternatives. From this study we conclude that multiply-add fused units may have a deep impact in raising the performance of future processor architectures with a reasonable increase in cost.Widening resources: a cost-effective technique for aggressive ILP architectureshttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/112025
Widening resources: a cost-effective technique for aggressive ILP architectures
López Álvarez, David; Llosa Espuny, José Francisco; Valero Cortés, Mateo; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard
The inherent instruction-level parallelism (ILP) of current applications (specially those based on floating point computations) has driven hardware designers and compilers writers to investigate aggressive techniques for exploiting program parallelism at the lowest level. To execute more operations per cycle, many processors are designed with growing degrees of resource replication (buses and functional units). However the high cost in terms of area and cycle time of this technique precludes the use of high degrees of replication. An alternative to resource replication is resource widening, that has also been used in some recent designs, in which the width of the resources is increased. In this paper we evaluate a broad set of design alternatives that combine both replication and widening. For each alternative we perform an estimation of the ILP limits (including the impact of spill code for several register file configurations) and the cost in terms of area and access time of the register file. We also perform a technological projection for the next 10 years in order to foresee the possible implementable alternatives. From this study we conclude that if the cost is taken into account, the best performance is obtained when combining certain degrees of replication and widening in the hardware resources. The results have been obtained from a large number of inner loops from numerical programs scheduled for VLIW architectures
2017-12-14T13:24:26ZLópez Álvarez, DavidLlosa Espuny, José FranciscoValero Cortés, MateoAyguadé Parra, EduardThe inherent instruction-level parallelism (ILP) of current applications (specially those based on floating point computations) has driven hardware designers and compilers writers to investigate aggressive techniques for exploiting program parallelism at the lowest level. To execute more operations per cycle, many processors are designed with growing degrees of resource replication (buses and functional units). However the high cost in terms of area and cycle time of this technique precludes the use of high degrees of replication. An alternative to resource replication is resource widening, that has also been used in some recent designs, in which the width of the resources is increased. In this paper we evaluate a broad set of design alternatives that combine both replication and widening. For each alternative we perform an estimation of the ILP limits (including the impact of spill code for several register file configurations) and the cost in terms of area and access time of the register file. We also perform a technological projection for the next 10 years in order to foresee the possible implementable alternatives. From this study we conclude that if the cost is taken into account, the best performance is obtained when combining certain degrees of replication and widening in the hardware resources. The results have been obtained from a large number of inner loops from numerical programs scheduled for VLIW architecturesMejora del aprendizaje mediante Just-In-Time Teaching en la docencia de Informática Básicahttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/111546
Mejora del aprendizaje mediante Just-In-Time Teaching en la docencia de Informática Básica
Pérez Poch, Antoni; López Álvarez, David
One of the desirable features that quality teaching
should have is individualized attention to the students.
On the other hand, it has been observed that the
students tend to solve fewer exercises than those
required. They usually do the resolution of exercises
in the vicinity of the exams and not in a continuous
way throughout the course, which has an impact on
both their learning and their academic performance.
In this work we present a teaching innovation of
individualized support called
2017-12-05T09:04:38ZPérez Poch, AntoniLópez Álvarez, DavidOne of the desirable features that quality teaching
should have is individualized attention to the students.
On the other hand, it has been observed that the
students tend to solve fewer exercises than those
required. They usually do the resolution of exercises
in the vicinity of the exams and not in a continuous
way throughout the course, which has an impact on
both their learning and their academic performance.
In this work we present a teaching innovation of
individualized support calledMapa de la competencia Sostenibilidad del proyecto EDINSOSThttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/110178
Mapa de la competencia Sostenibilidad del proyecto EDINSOST
Sánchez Carracedo, Fermín; Segalàs Coral, Jorge; Vidal López, Eva María; Martín Escofet, Carme; López Álvarez, David; Climent Vilaró, Joan; Cabré Garcia, José M.
EDINSOST es un proyecto financiado por el Programa Estatal de I+D+i, y está orientado a afrontar los Retos de la Sociedad. El proyecto tiene por objetivo la formación de titulados capaces de liderar la resolución de los retos de nuestra sociedad mediante la integración de la formación en sostenibilidad en el Sistema Universitario Español. En el proyecto participan 55 investigadores de 9 universidades españolas. Para conseguir su objetivo, el proyecto ha defini-do el mapa de la competencia en sostenibilidad de 15 titulaciones. A partir del mapa se establecerán las estrategias didácticas más apropiadas para la formación en sostenibilidad, se diagnosticará el estado de las necesidades formativas en sostenibilidad del profesorado y del estudiantado y, finalmente, se elaborarán propuestas de capacitación para ambos colectivos. En este artículo se presenta el proyecto EDINSOST y el mapa de la competencia Sostenibilidad del grado en Ingeniería Informática como primer resultado del proyecto. El mapa es fácilmente adaptable a cualquier titulación de educación superior.
2017-11-09T12:52:08ZSánchez Carracedo, FermínSegalàs Coral, JorgeVidal López, Eva MaríaMartín Escofet, CarmeLópez Álvarez, DavidCliment Vilaró, JoanCabré Garcia, José M.EDINSOST es un proyecto financiado por el Programa Estatal de I+D+i, y está orientado a afrontar los Retos de la Sociedad. El proyecto tiene por objetivo la formación de titulados capaces de liderar la resolución de los retos de nuestra sociedad mediante la integración de la formación en sostenibilidad en el Sistema Universitario Español. En el proyecto participan 55 investigadores de 9 universidades españolas. Para conseguir su objetivo, el proyecto ha defini-do el mapa de la competencia en sostenibilidad de 15 titulaciones. A partir del mapa se establecerán las estrategias didácticas más apropiadas para la formación en sostenibilidad, se diagnosticará el estado de las necesidades formativas en sostenibilidad del profesorado y del estudiantado y, finalmente, se elaborarán propuestas de capacitación para ambos colectivos. En este artículo se presenta el proyecto EDINSOST y el mapa de la competencia Sostenibilidad del grado en Ingeniería Informática como primer resultado del proyecto. El mapa es fácilmente adaptable a cualquier titulación de educación superior.Principios para una experiencia docente de calidad (Parte 3)http://hdl.handle.net/2117/108905
Principios para una experiencia docente de calidad (Parte 3)
López Álvarez, David
Tercera columna dedicada a los princios de calidad docente de Chickering y Gamson.
2017-10-20T10:26:06ZLópez Álvarez, DavidTercera columna dedicada a los princios de calidad docente de Chickering y Gamson.